If you are into Ruby development, then you should definitely take a look at TorqueBox. TorqueBox provides an all-in-one Ruby environment that runs on JBossAS. Ben Browning did reveal some interesting benchmarks.

JAX-RS in GWT with Errai

Errai provides integration of JBoss technologies with GWT applications. The latest addition does simplify the integration of REST-based services with GWT client applications.

CDI specification Updates

The CDI specification get's some notable updates. Pete did already speak about it at JavaOne. The slides can be found here. He's also submitted an early draft of the Contexts and Dependency Injection 1.1 specification.

Our data virtualization system does get plenty of new features: Support for procedure language, File enhancements, TEXTTABLE Enhancements, Temp table transactions, Buffering Improvements and support for the GSSAPI.